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Friday I blogged about “What Consumer Need to Do to Help Themselves During the Great Recession.” Karen Anderson wrote and offered two suggestions for uncertain economic times: “Working Closer in a Collapsing Economy” – Moving From Me to We and “Save Cash. Swap or Give It Away, #2 of 5 Ways – Moving From Me to We. Other resources for consumers are offered. …

What’s needed, I think, is for consumers to join together and help each other in these recessionary times. Consumers, as a player in the economy along with businesses and the government, can have power in the marketplace. However, they seldom organize and act on their own behalf. Consumers more often identify with the interests of the company or group they work for rather than their consumer interests. It would be helpful if consumers formed city-wide organizations, with neighborhood chapters, to help each other in the recession. …

Today I went to a hearing of the state Senate Labor, Commerce, and Consumer Protection Committee to see who would testify against SB 5564, a bill to protect debit and credit cards. I posted about the bill yesterday. …

At 3:30 p.m. Thursday, the state Senate Labor, Commerce, and Consumer Protection Committee will conduct a hearing on SB 5564 in Olympia. The bill would require merchants accepting debit and credit cards to dispose of the consumer information on those cards within 48 hours of the completion of a transaction. …

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